EPA Licenced Industrial Emissions Facilities

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the competent authority for granting and enforcing Industrial Emissions (IE) licences for specified industrial and agriculture activities listed in the First Schedule to the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 as amended.

The material on the following search pages includes summary details of licence applications and certain related
documents in electronic PDF format. At present, PDF documents available online include:

All licences granted to-date;

Applications received by the EPA since 1 December 2004;

A limited number of applications received by the EPA before December 2004.

Annual Environmental Reports for 2008 onwards.

Most recent data update

03.04.2017

What is in the download?

Files are presented as zipped ESRI Shapefiles.

• LicensedFacilities_IE_03042017.shp;

The LicensedFacilities_IE_03042017.shp is an ESRI Shapefile of (point data). This dataset contains 585 licenced IE facilities.

The EPA Licensed IE Facilities shapefile shows point locations of either the entrance or centroid of facilities ever licensed by the EPA.

A Licence Status field is included to show whether the site is Licensed or if the licence was Surrendered.

Current IE licence End Dates are given.

The data includes name, address and principal activity information as it stands on the date of issue, but as licences are living documents the details
of a license can change over time. The most up to date and complete information source about status, compliance and activities relating to a licence
are available from the licence search. Registration numbers (RegNo field)
do not change and can be used to access the licence from the licence search page.

The Principal Code of Activity for each facility is provided witin the dataset.